Gerard Mcelwee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 297188 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerard Mcelwee |
| NOMBRES | Gerard |
| APELLIDO | Mcelwee |
| FIRMA | MCELWEE G |
| AFILIACIONES | York St John University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6905-4443 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Resilience and confidence in entrepreneurial self-efficacy
This study examines the psychological and institutional determinants of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) among rural women entrepreneurs in Oman, using a cross-sectional survey of 190 respondents analysed through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings show that resilience is the strongest predictor of ESE and also mediates the relationship between confidence in business decisions and ESE. Confidence itself has a positive direct effe…
Farm adaptive business strategies in crisis management
The global COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted businesses worldwide, with rural businesses being no exception. This study examines the effects of the global crisis on upland farmers in England. It builds on the under-researched area of constrained rural entrepreneurship. Institutional theory is applied as a theoretical lens to understand how crisis events shape the constrained institutional contexts in which farm businesses strategically nav…
Constrained rural entrepreneurship
Dry stone walling. Rural artisan enterprise in the urban economy
Usually, dry stone walls are a feature of rural locations but this paper presents a case story of how two experienced dry stone Wallers were commissioned to build a dry stone wall in an urban location. Through narrative story telling using photographs, this work charts the progress of the construction of the Wall from the commissioning process in December 2021 from visiting stone quarries to search for appropriate stone in January 2022, to the bu…
Refugee Subentrepreneurship
This article conceptualises refugees' endeavours for upward social mobility through subentrepreneurship. Subentrepreneurship refers to various self-employment forms that are undeclared to relevant authorities to escape superimposed historical, temporal, spatial, institutional and social contexts, which constrain actors' entrepreneurial activities. Using a mixed theoretical underpinning combining Mixed Embeddedness (ME) with Weber's Iron Cage of R…
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018
Constrained entrepreneurship in UK agriculture
Discrete event simulation in livestock management
The agricultural sector in the UK is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of changes in the macroeconomic environment and the future of the livestock sub-sector is particularly uncertain. Farmer's businesses and livelihoods are at risk with the planned removal of subsidy payments as a consequence of emerging agricultural policy change as a result of Brexit. Farmers are forced to seek adaptive strategies to survive because of changing socio…
Illegal diversification strategies in the farming community from a UK perspective
Illegal activity in the UK halal (sheep) supply chain
Food supply chain theory and practice assumes that the processes involved are legal and value adding. In this paper, using examples from the UK halal (sheep) meat supply chain, we outline a value extracting value chain through a mixed methods qualitative approach consisting of face-to-face-interviews and a documentary research strategy underpinned by Narrative Inquiry. Building on previous theoretical work on Illegal Rural Enterprise, we present …
Criminal farmers and organised rural crime groups
In investigating crime, it is normal for investigators to consider issues such as modus operandi, but seldom do they consider the business model used by criminals, or aspects of the supply-chain management of the criminal venture. However, it is apparent that both farmers as criminals and rural organised crime groups are involved in food fraud. The entrepreneurial farmer need not only operate in a legal domain, and may engage in criminal acts as …
The dark side of the rural idyll
Experience of entrepreneurial training for female farmers to stimulate entrepreneurship in Uganda
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the success of a scheme, supported by the Ugandan Agribusiness Initiative Trust, to fund gender and entrepreneurship training for women farmers in the north of Uganda (Gulu District and Lira District). Moreover, this paper reflects upon our experience of delivering training for women farmers and highlights key observations related to women’s entrepreneurship in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach…
Animating “bottom-up” sustainable strategies in village settings
Purpose – The key purpose of the paper is to consider the challenges facing local authorities in supporting sustainable rural settlements in their efforts to be enterprising and sustainable in confronted with increasingly severe downward pressure on local authority finances due to the recession; the long-term trend of increased adult social care costs linked to a challenging demographic profile across rural England; and increasing expectations ar…
Confronting Social Constructions of Rural Criminality
The accepted social construction of the rural criminal is that of the (alien) urban marauder. In this social script the farmer is presented as the victim of crime. Traditionally, farmers enjoy high levels of social esteem and rarely are they vilified. This case story examines alternative income generating strategies from the margins of agriculture which include theft of animals and property; engaging in the illegal meat trade; trading in illegal …
After the fall
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of shame in entrepreneurship. Extant research in relation to the entrepreneurial process has tended to concentrate upon the entrepreneur as hero and other positive aspects of the process. Consequently, the darker sides of the entrepreneurial personality and enterprise culture such as the role of shame remain a relatively under researched facet of entrepreneurship theory. Despite this de…
The dark side of the rural idyll
Illegal diversification strategies in the farming community from a UK perspective
Refugee Subentrepreneurship
This article conceptualises refugees' endeavours for upward social mobility through subentrepreneurship. Subentrepreneurship refers to various self-employment forms that are undeclared to relevant authorities to escape superimposed historical, temporal, spatial, institutional and social contexts, which constrain actors' entrepreneurial activities. Using a mixed theoretical underpinning combining Mixed Embeddedness (ME) with Weber's Iron Cage of R…
Discrete event simulation in livestock management
The agricultural sector in the UK is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of changes in the macroeconomic environment and the future of the livestock sub-sector is particularly uncertain. Farmer's businesses and livelihoods are at risk with the planned removal of subsidy payments as a consequence of emerging agricultural policy change as a result of Brexit. Farmers are forced to seek adaptive strategies to survive because of changing socio…
Constrained rural entrepreneurship
Illegal activity in the UK halal (sheep) supply chain
Food supply chain theory and practice assumes that the processes involved are legal and value adding. In this paper, using examples from the UK halal (sheep) meat supply chain, we outline a value extracting value chain through a mixed methods qualitative approach consisting of face-to-face-interviews and a documentary research strategy underpinned by Narrative Inquiry. Building on previous theoretical work on Illegal Rural Enterprise, we present …
Experience of entrepreneurial training for female farmers to stimulate entrepreneurship in Uganda
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the success of a scheme, supported by the Ugandan Agribusiness Initiative Trust, to fund gender and entrepreneurship training for women farmers in the north of Uganda (Gulu District and Lira District). Moreover, this paper reflects upon our experience of delivering training for women farmers and highlights key observations related to women’s entrepreneurship in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach…
Constrained entrepreneurship in UK agriculture
Confronting Social Constructions of Rural Criminality
The accepted social construction of the rural criminal is that of the (alien) urban marauder. In this social script the farmer is presented as the victim of crime. Traditionally, farmers enjoy high levels of social esteem and rarely are they vilified. This case story examines alternative income generating strategies from the margins of agriculture which include theft of animals and property; engaging in the illegal meat trade; trading in illegal …
Farm adaptive business strategies in crisis management
The global COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted businesses worldwide, with rural businesses being no exception. This study examines the effects of the global crisis on upland farmers in England. It builds on the under-researched area of constrained rural entrepreneurship. Institutional theory is applied as a theoretical lens to understand how crisis events shape the constrained institutional contexts in which farm businesses strategically nav…
Dry stone walling. Rural artisan enterprise in the urban economy
Usually, dry stone walls are a feature of rural locations but this paper presents a case story of how two experienced dry stone Wallers were commissioned to build a dry stone wall in an urban location. Through narrative story telling using photographs, this work charts the progress of the construction of the Wall from the commissioning process in December 2021 from visiting stone quarries to search for appropriate stone in January 2022, to the bu…
Animating “bottom-up” sustainable strategies in village settings
Purpose – The key purpose of the paper is to consider the challenges facing local authorities in supporting sustainable rural settlements in their efforts to be enterprising and sustainable in confronted with increasingly severe downward pressure on local authority finances due to the recession; the long-term trend of increased adult social care costs linked to a challenging demographic profile across rural England; and increasing expectations ar…
After the fall
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of shame in entrepreneurship. Extant research in relation to the entrepreneurial process has tended to concentrate upon the entrepreneur as hero and other positive aspects of the process. Consequently, the darker sides of the entrepreneurial personality and enterprise culture such as the role of shame remain a relatively under researched facet of entrepreneurship theory. Despite this de…
After the fall
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of shame in entrepreneurship. Extant research in relation to the entrepreneurial process has tended to concentrate upon the entrepreneur as hero and other positive aspects of the process. Consequently, the darker sides of the entrepreneurial personality and enterprise culture such as the role of shame remain a relatively under researched facet of entrepreneurship theory. Despite this de…
Animating “bottom-up” sustainable strategies in village settings
Purpose – The key purpose of the paper is to consider the challenges facing local authorities in supporting sustainable rural settlements in their efforts to be enterprising and sustainable in confronted with increasingly severe downward pressure on local authority finances due to the recession; the long-term trend of increased adult social care costs linked to a challenging demographic profile across rural England; and increasing expectations ar…
Confronting Social Constructions of Rural Criminality
The accepted social construction of the rural criminal is that of the (alien) urban marauder. In this social script the farmer is presented as the victim of crime. Traditionally, farmers enjoy high levels of social esteem and rarely are they vilified. This case story examines alternative income generating strategies from the margins of agriculture which include theft of animals and property; engaging in the illegal meat trade; trading in illegal …
Experience of entrepreneurial training for female farmers to stimulate entrepreneurship in Uganda
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to evaluate the success of a scheme, supported by the Ugandan Agribusiness Initiative Trust, to fund gender and entrepreneurship training for women farmers in the north of Uganda (Gulu District and Lira District). Moreover, this paper reflects upon our experience of delivering training for women farmers and highlights key observations related to women’s entrepreneurship in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach…
The dark side of the rural idyll
Criminal farmers and organised rural crime groups
In investigating crime, it is normal for investigators to consider issues such as modus operandi, but seldom do they consider the business model used by criminals, or aspects of the supply-chain management of the criminal venture. However, it is apparent that both farmers as criminals and rural organised crime groups are involved in food fraud. The entrepreneurial farmer need not only operate in a legal domain, and may engage in criminal acts as …
Illegal diversification strategies in the farming community from a UK perspective
Illegal activity in the UK halal (sheep) supply chain
Food supply chain theory and practice assumes that the processes involved are legal and value adding. In this paper, using examples from the UK halal (sheep) meat supply chain, we outline a value extracting value chain through a mixed methods qualitative approach consisting of face-to-face-interviews and a documentary research strategy underpinned by Narrative Inquiry. Building on previous theoretical work on Illegal Rural Enterprise, we present …
Discrete event simulation in livestock management
The agricultural sector in the UK is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of changes in the macroeconomic environment and the future of the livestock sub-sector is particularly uncertain. Farmer's businesses and livelihoods are at risk with the planned removal of subsidy payments as a consequence of emerging agricultural policy change as a result of Brexit. Farmers are forced to seek adaptive strategies to survive because of changing socio…
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018
Constrained entrepreneurship in UK agriculture
Constrained rural entrepreneurship
Dry stone walling. Rural artisan enterprise in the urban economy
Usually, dry stone walls are a feature of rural locations but this paper presents a case story of how two experienced dry stone Wallers were commissioned to build a dry stone wall in an urban location. Through narrative story telling using photographs, this work charts the progress of the construction of the Wall from the commissioning process in December 2021 from visiting stone quarries to search for appropriate stone in January 2022, to the bu…
Refugee Subentrepreneurship
This article conceptualises refugees' endeavours for upward social mobility through subentrepreneurship. Subentrepreneurship refers to various self-employment forms that are undeclared to relevant authorities to escape superimposed historical, temporal, spatial, institutional and social contexts, which constrain actors' entrepreneurial activities. Using a mixed theoretical underpinning combining Mixed Embeddedness (ME) with Weber's Iron Cage of R…
Farm adaptive business strategies in crisis management
The global COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted businesses worldwide, with rural businesses being no exception. This study examines the effects of the global crisis on upland farmers in England. It builds on the under-researched area of constrained rural entrepreneurship. Institutional theory is applied as a theoretical lens to understand how crisis events shape the constrained institutional contexts in which farm businesses strategically nav…
Resilience and confidence in entrepreneurial self-efficacy
This study examines the psychological and institutional determinants of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) among rural women entrepreneurs in Oman, using a cross-sectional survey of 190 respondents analysed through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings show that resilience is the strongest predictor of ESE and also mediates the relationship between confidence in business decisions and ESE. Confidence itself has a positive direct effe…
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